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FORS2: LSS Wavelength solution and resolution
The determination of the dispersion relation for LSS data is done as follows: The recipe fors_calib identifies reference lines on LSS arc lamp exposures, and traces the spectral edges on the associated flat field exposures. With this information the spectral extraction mask to be applied in the scientific data reduction is determined. From the input flat field exposures a normalised flat field frame is also derived. The input arc lamp and flat field exposures are assumed to be obtained quasi-simultaneously, so that they would be described by exactly the same optical distortions. Wavelength calibration is performed row by row and produces a 2-D rebinned science frame. This has the effect of removing the instrumental line curvature and allows the user to extract her/his spectra and have them wavelength calibrated without any additional operation on the frame itself. The global list of lines currently used by FORS pipeline can be found here. Due to the high number of possible grism/slit combinations, the Pipeline currently uses a polynomial with a maximum degree of 5 (for 150I without filters) in the dispersion direction, while a 2nd order polynomial is adopted in the spatial direction. 
Wavelength Calibration
The wavelength calibration related parameters are monitored for both MIT and EEV detectors. Scoring&thresholds Wavelength Calibration
The LSS average resolution and number of wavelengths used to determine resultion are tightly scored with constant thresholds. The requirement is stability on the calibration timescale. On 2018-08-28 new pipeline v.5.3.35 was adopted, which affected values of the qc parameters (see below). The thresholds were adjusted.
No major events Algorithm Wavelength Calibration
Central wavelength is a wavelength at the center of the CCD. Due to the curvature of the spectral lines the central wavelength varies along the slit. The central wavelength can change slightly due to earthquakes or dismounting of the instrument. Central resolution is the mean resolution averaged over all spectral lines detected on the complete CCD. The mean rms of central resolution is the mean RMS of the resolution per line averaged over the whole wavelength range (and not just for the center of the CCD). Number of independent identified arc lines is a number of independent arc lines that were identified and then used to calculate the above listed parameters. On 2018-08-28 new pipeline v.5.3.35 was adopted. In this version the spectra are cut off at the wavelength where flux from the second order may contribute. This affect the endwavelength of the following grism/filter combinations
The pipeline ignores the parameters startwavelength and endwavelength when performing the wavelength calibration. However, it uses only the lines between startwavelength and endwavelength when determining the resolution. As the FWHM of the spectral lines stays constant with wavelength, the resolution lambda/FWHM increases towards higher wavelengths. With the change of endwavelength from 11000 to 6600 we are removing all red lines and therefore the lines which provide higher resolution. Therefore both the number of arc lines and the resolution reported by the pipeline drop.
Flatfield Calibration
No trending Scoring&thresholds Flatfield Calibration
No scoring
After the mid 2012 intervention to increase the throughput of the External Calibration Unit (ECU), the ECU lamps were appearing too bright, causing saturation of flat frames taken particularly with the 150I, 300V and 300I grisms. Eventually, in the summer of 2013 the exposure times were adjusted and situation stabilized. From June 1, 2013 until November 15, 2013 quality of the spectroscopic calibration files cannot be guaranteed. Algorithm Flatfield Calibration
This parameter corresponds to the number of pixel with more than 65000 ADU in the first raw flat frame. The saturation level is 65535 ADU. The counts of the first 10 pixel rows (at the bottom) and the last 10 pixel rows (at the top) are ignored. Before 2012-10-10, the definition of this QC1 parameter was based on the counts of the pipeline processed master spectroscopic flats.
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